What are the effects of monetary policy on output? Results from an agnostic identification procedure

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 381-419

  Uhlig, Harald ^a,b,c,d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Bundesbank ^*  (Germany)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identification; Monetary neutrality; Monetary policy shocks; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844368307     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.05.007     Document Type: Article

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